Openings for Graduate students：

• Master candidates:

  Scientific master：083000|Environment Science and Engineering;

  Engineering master：085700|Resource and Environment;

• Ph.D. candidates：

  Scientific Ph.D.：083000| Environment Science and Engineering;

  Engineering Ph.D.：085700| Resource and Environment

Work experience：

• 2014.09-2015.09：Postdoc, iChEM center, Xiamen University

• 2015.09-2019.05：Postdoc, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

• 2019.06-present：Professor, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology

Education：

• 2009.09-2014.07：Ph.D., Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Engineering，Xiamen University；

• 2005.09-2009.07：B.S., Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Engineering, Anhui University.

Research interests

• Precisely-controlled synthesis of nanomaterials with functional interfacial structure

• Electrocatalysis (for renewable energy storage or organic synthesis)

• Heterogeneous catalysis (selective hydrogenation, oxidation or environmental catalysis)

• Plastic recycles via catalysis

• DFT simulation

Funding

• Start-up package，3.000.000 RMB， from 2019；

• NSFC，650.000 RMB，2020.01-2023.12；

Selected publications：

1. Guangxu Chen; Zhao, Y.; Fu, G.; Duchesne, P. N.; Gu, L.; Zheng, Y.; Weng, X.; Chen, M.; Zhang, P.; Pao, C. W.; Lee, J. F.; Zheng, N. Interfacial Effects in Iron-Nickel Hydroxide-Platinum Nanoparticles Enhance Catalytic Oxidation, Science 2014, 344, 495.

2. Guangxu Chen#; Xu, C.#; Huang, X.; Ye, J.; Gu, L.; Li, G.; Tang, Z.; Wu, B.; Yang, H.; Zhao, Z.; Zhou, Z.; Fu, G.; Zheng, N. Interfacial electronic effects control the reaction selectivity of platinum catalysts, Nat. Mater. 2016, 15, 564.

3. Lu, Z.#; Guangxu Chen#; Siahrostami, S.; Chen, Z.; Liu, K.; Xie, J.; Liao, L.; Wu, T.; Lin, D.; Liu, Y.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Nørskov, J. K.; Cui, Y. High-efficiency oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide catalysed by oxidized carbon materials, Nat. Catal. 2018, 1, 156.

4. Xu, C.#; Guangxu Chen#; Zhao, Y.; Liu, P.; Duan, X.; Gu, L.; Fu, G.; Yuan, Y.; Zheng, N. Interfacing with silica boosts the catalysis of copper, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 3367.

5. Guangxu Chen; Tan, Y.; Wu, B.; Fu, G.; Zheng, N. Carbon monoxide-controlled synthesis of surface-clean Pt nanocubes with high electrocatalytic activity, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 2758.

Honors：

• Second Class National Prize of Natural Science (2018, NO.4)